Errata for Using Samba

The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".

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Anonymous

Feb 01, 2000

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Page 6
In the first paragraph:

"back slashes" was changed to "backslashes"

Anonymous

May 01, 2000

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Page 13

The last paragraph used to read:
"You can find out the node type of any Windows
machine by typing the command ipconfig /all..."
This paragraph and the example that followed were removed
and replaced with:
"You can find out the node type of a Windows 95/98 machine
with the "More Info" button of the winipcfg command. On
Windows NT, type ipconfig /all and search for line that says
Node Type."

Anonymous

Feb 01, 2000

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Page 20
In the second paragraph

3.5 was replaced by 3.1.

Anonymous

Feb 01, 2000

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Page 27
2nd paragraph (under smbd)

The line reads: "smdb handles all notifications between the Samba server and the network clients." "smdb" should be changed to "smbd".

Anonymous

Jul 25, 2011

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Page 42
In the owl note

"smbpassword -a steve" was changed to:
"smbpasswd -a steve"

Anonymous

Feb 01, 2000

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Page 62 & 73
In the turkey note on each page:

"encrypt password=yes" was changed to:
"encrypt passwords=yes"

Anonymous

Feb 01, 2000

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Page 71
Under the "Hosts files" section, the sentence

"The Windows host file should appear in the WINDOWSHOSTS
directory of whatever local drive Windows is installed on."
was changed to:
"If Windows NT is installed in the directory C:WINNT, the host
file is C:WINNTSystem32driversetcHOSTS."

Anonymous

Feb 01, 2000

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Page 77
In the second sentence of the second paragraph

"Wndows NT" was changed to "Windows NT"

Anonymous

May 01, 2000

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Page 89
In the first paragraph

"in the context of the [pub] share"
was removed.

Anonymous

Feb 01, 2000

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Page 111
In Table 4.7, the "Function" column, "Max Log Size" row

".bak" was changed to:
".old"

Anonymous

Feb 01, 2000

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Page 112
The semicolon in front of "debug timestamp or timestamp logs"

was removed.

Anonymous

Feb 01, 2000

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Page 120
In the first bullet of the section "Multiple subnets",

the parenthesized sentence:
"(If you have a domain master browser in a
subnet, a local master browser is not needed.)"
was removed.

At the bottom of this page, the example that read:
[global]
include = /ucsr/local/9781565924499/lib/smb.conf.%m
now reads:
include = /usr/local/9781565924499/lib/smb.conf.%a

Anonymous

May 01, 2000

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Page 178
Last sentence of the first paragraph now starts with "If", not "Is".

Anonymous

May 01, 2000

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Page 197
In the section entitled "logon drive":

"logon home" was changed to:
"logon drive"

Anonymous

Feb 01, 2000

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Page 229
In the third paragraph

"the system password file" was changed to:
"the system hosts file"

Anonymous

Feb 01, 2000

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Page 231
In the examples in sections "Time Synchronization" and "Time

Server":
"time service = yes" was changed to:
"time server = yes"

Anonymous

Feb 01, 2000

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Page 237

The text used to read:
"This tool is provided with Windows 95 OSR2 and
comes standard with Windows 98"
It now reads:
"This tool comes standard with Windows for
Workgroups and Windows 95/98"

Anonymous

Feb 01, 2000

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Page 237
The sentence starting was:

"With Windows NT..." to:
was changed to:
"With Windows NT, the messenger service lets you
receive messages without starting such a tool..."

Anonymous

May 01, 2000

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Page 244
The last line of the "panic action" example was changed to

* 'xedit <<: "Samba has shutdown unexpectedly" ; :'

Anonymous

Feb 01, 2000

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Page 261

The text used to read:
"TCP/IP Network Administration protocol stack"
It now reads:
"TCP/IP protocol stack"

Anonymous

Feb 01, 2000

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Page 292
In the list of mailing lists at the bottom, change

9781565924499-bugs@samba.org
to:
9781565924499@samba.org

Anonymous

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Page 293
The following item was added after the 9781565924499@samba.org

item:
"http://kt.linuxcare.com/KC/9781565924499/
This is an edited commentary on the Samba development lists,
much like the Linux "Kernel Traffic" site. Reading this site
is an easy way to keep current with Samba changes."

Anonymous

Feb 01, 2000

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Page 313
In the last paragraph before heading, after the sentence

"Andrew Tridgell released..." another sentence was added:
"You can learn about these benchmarks at
ftp://9781565924499.org/pub/tridge/dbench/README."